The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) announced its dissolution and the end of its more than four decades of armed struggle against the Turkish State on Monday, as reported by the pro-Kurdish news outlet ANF.
The Kurdish armed group declared in a statement that the PKK's 12th Congress decided to dissolve the organisational structure of the PKK and cease its armed struggle.
On 27 February, the PKK's historical leader Abdullah Öcalan urged the movement to lay down arms and dissolve. This was part of a process initiated by a Turkish government ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
The call for dissolution from Öcalan, who has been imprisoned since 1999, triggered a demonstration of support in Brussels in March.
The PKK announced an immediate ceasefire with Turkish forces on 1 March.
